In The Following Passage Of Cedphalus

In this passage, Cephalus is baffled by how many people he encounters who regret not fully experience the sexual feasting and drinking parties that accompanied one’s youth. Those people --- who happen to populate most of his city --- are in a constant search for something “great”. Cephalus describes them as being “deprived”, insisting that they feel cheated from their youth and deserved more. Oddly enough, he emphasizes the very idea of searching for more. Those who are shackled by the social construct of needing to experience the sexual feastings and wild parties tend to live in the past; whereas Cephalus is challenging them to see the beauty in old age. With old age comes freedom, and with freedom comes the ability to experience anything one could possibly imagine. Instead of living
Here, we are controlled by them. They consume our minds and thoughts with what society deems as “cool”. Slaying women, drinking obsessively, and feasting on those who are inferior are all actions provoked by the insane masters. They do not allow ourselves to be free; the very message that Cephalus is trying to tell his members. By escaping from their control, one is essentially able to live a life of peace and freedom. One reason why these masters inhabit the youth is that they are easily swayed into valuing other’s opinions over their own; they do not understand what it means to be their own individual. However, there comes an age when that desire to fit in subsides, and one undergoes a transformation in which he discovers that the ultimate form of happiness stems from having freedom to express one’s own individuality. When that occurs, he will know what it is like to be